(657 ) 



Length of forewing : ? , 22 mm. 



Ilab. Queensland. 



One ? in tlie collection of Monsieur I'Abbe do Joannis, who kindly lent it ns 

 for description and figuring. 



Abundantly distinct fnnu all other known Mucroglossum by the four yellow 

 abdominal side-patches and the bright underside of the hindwing, togetlier with the 

 pattern and colour of the upper surface of body and wings. 



6ul. Macroglossum semifasciata. 



*.]fijcriiQliisfiit sem'fdscUila Hampson, in Blanf., Fdnna lirit. IiiiL, Muths i. p. 115. p. 187 (181t:i) 



(E. Pegu ; Labuan : — Mus. Brit.). 

 '.Uamiijlossa farfi, Piepers (h<j« Cramer, 1780), Tijd.srhr. Ent. xl. p. 48. n. 120. p. 101. t. li. f. 10 



(/.) (1897) (Java). 



c? ? . Yellow side-patches of abdomen very small, vestigial, the black patches 

 prominent, seventh segment with a black mesial })atch, anal tuft dark, side-tufts 

 white-tipped ; palpus grey, breast darker, abdomeu with ill-defined huffish grey 



mesial patches on proximal segments, seventh sternite more or less grey in ? . 



Forewing, above, with the interspace between the two obliiiue antemedian lines 

 filled up with black in posterior half, this band narrow, curved basad behind ; 

 first and second discal lines not very distinct, interspace not filled up with black. 



Base of hindwing more extended black than in the allied species, especially in 



a i from Java, joined along abdominal margin to distal border. In this' S the 

 yellow area of the hindwing below not reaching halfway to tip of SM-, while 

 it extends to the third discal Hue iu specimens from other places. 



S from Java. Tenth tergite truncate ; sternite rounded at end, carinate 

 above. Clasper with friction-scales ; harpe (PI. L. f. 32) slender, pointed. Process 

 of penis-sheath (PI. LVI. f. 47) obtuse, dentate, its base projecting, two rows of 

 teeth at its base ; longer intcn'naj rod acuminate, but not produced into a needle- 

 like process. 



Larva (fig. by Piepers), when adult, blackish brown, dotted with grey, a 

 pale dorso-lateral line on head and pronotum ; a dark dorsal line from head to 

 horn; this long. Stage before last: head and anterior segment (or segments), 

 sometimes also the middle part of the back, green. 



Ilab. Burma to Borneo and Java. 



Li the Tring Museum 2 S S from : Borneo ; Java (Piepers). 



In coll. Staudinger from S.E. Borneo (Wahnes) and Kinabalu (Waterstradt). 



'JU2. Macroglossum aquila. 



* Macnigl(MS(i aq'tilu Boisduval, S/jec. Gen. Li'/i. Hit. i. p. 340. n. 30 (1875) (Cochiacliiua ; .Silliet ; — 



coll. Charles Oberthur) ; Kirby, Cnt. L<j>. Iht. i. p. 631. n. 29 (1892). 

 *.\[,i,-riyhism hilerritpta Butler, Pruc. Zool. Sue. Loml. p. 242. n. 10. t. 37. f. 2 (187o) (Darjiliug :— 



Mus. Brit.) ; id., Trans. Zool. Sor. Lond. ix. p. 526. n. 21 (1877) ; Kirby, l.r. n. 32 (1892) ; 



Hamps., in Blauf., Fmiwi Brit. Lid., Mollis i. p. 119. n. 201 (1892) {= oquila) ; Dudg., Jonni. 



Bombiiii X. n. N„f. xi. p. 419. u. 201 (1898) (Sikhim, 1000 ft., ix.). 



i ? . iSubapicai s2)ot SC'' — 11' of forewing above as prominent as in aii.-iimiU,f, 

 antemedian lines more proximal thau in other species ; costal edge of liindwing 

 dilated into a lobe before middle. 



S . Tenth tergite gradually narrowed, apex obtuse, slightly curved downwards ; 

 slernile rounded at end. Clasper with friction-scales; harpe short, stout (PI. LI. 

 f. 2), with the upperside excavated, and the edges dentate, looking like a tooth- 



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